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IGCyr131300

Trismegistos ID: 738860

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 2997.

Support

Small fragment of a white marble panel, broken off at left, above and below; as all breaks are worn out (as if from water), it is only probable that the right edge and back are original (0.05; 0.07;0.035).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.008, lightly cut, without serifs; xi without central hasta, non-slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps second half of third or beginning of second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1982 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

- - - - - - [---] Ι+  [- max.2 -]  [---] ΑΙ δίς [---] ΔΕΞ [---] ΔΙΑΤΙ 5 [---] ΤΗΣ̣ - - - - - -

Apparatus

3 ΔΕΞ : δ᾿ἐξ : (or) δεξ

4 ΔΙΑΤΙ : διά τι : διὰ τι : (or) [ἴ]δια τι

5 ΤΗΣ̣ : τῆς : (or) της

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

The very fragmentary condition of this stone does not allow any sure reading. The only clear word is δίς 'twice'. Some possibilities are given in the apparatus. But no choice can be made. The text seems to be in koine (see l. 5) and the layout and size of the letters recall some official texts such as decisions of the Lagid kings or other regulations.

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